Annual Meeting
Synchronicity, one of Jung’s most intriguing and controversial concepts, flies in the face of linear science and has its roots in the ancient notion of the “sympathy of all things” or “things happening together.” We will explore this concept in the light of depth psychology and modern science, focusing on meaningful coincidences, precognitive and other paranormal experiences, and the relation between time, space, and the unconscious. In this talk we will explore how the unconscious can operate outside the laws of causality according to what Jung called a “psychically relative space-time continuum,” we will appreciate the numinosity of the unconscious as it manifests through paranormal phenomena, and we will reappraise ancient systems of divination such as the I Ching in context of the principle of synchronicity.
Michael Gellert, LCSW, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Los Angeles and Pasadena, and former Director of Training of the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles. He is the author of Modern Mysticism, The Fate of America, and The Way of the Small.
Part of the series Basic Jung – Three Essentials: The Religious Function, Alchemy & Synchronicity